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The American 
Sociological Congress 

(A Development from the Southern Sociological Congress) 

The National League for 
Social Service 



PURPOSE 

To promote health, justice, patriotism and 
training for citizenship. 

To teach the sacredness of law both as to 
person and property. 

To foster loyalty to home, church and 
government. 



Every Citizen as Patriotic in Community 
Service as the Soldier was in 
War Service 



Make Citizenship Mean 
6 Distinguished Service " 



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ORGANIZATION 

President 
Bishop Theodore D. Bratton 

Vice-President 
Governor C. H. Brough 

General and Legislative Superintendent 
Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddie 

Educational Secretary 
J. E. McCulloch 

Treasurer 
Wade Hampton Cooper, President Union Savings Bank 

Office Secretary 
Miss Laura R. Church 

Board of Governors 
Bishop Theodore D. Bratton 
Governor Charles H. Brough 
Judge J. A. McCullough 
Dr. A. J. Barton 
Mr. Wade Hampton Cooper 
Dr. Edwin C. Dinwiddie 
Mr. J. E. McCulloch 
Senator Wesley L. Jones 
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford 



Governing Board of the 
Southern Sociological Congress 

Dr. W. D. Weatherpord 
Professor J. A. C. Chandler 
Dr. James Hardy Dillard 
Judge J. A. McCullough 
Dr. W. W. Alexander 



Governing Board of the 
Southwestern Sociological Congress 

Governor C. H. Brough 
Dr. J. W. Jent 
President W. B. Bizzell 
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford 
Dr. A. J. Barton 



Headquarters 

MUNSEY BUILDING 

WASHINGTON, D. C 

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\\^ The Platform of the American 
Sociological Congress 

The Sociological Congress stands: — 

For the Home as the institution of pre-eminence in our democracy. 

For the school as the capitol of the community and proper center of 
educational, civic and social activities. 

For the Church as an essential institution of a democracy for moral 
and religious training. 

For the coordination of social, civic and industrial activities and agen- 
cies so as to enable the home, the school and the church to function in 
the largest possible degree in the conservation and welfare of human 
life. 

For every possible safeguard for women that they may be kept fit — 
physically, mentally and morally — to perform the most sacred functions 
of the home. 

For adequate financial support for the school that the teaching force 
may be maintained at the highest efficiency and that no child may be 
untrained or improperly trained for lack of suitable facilities. 

For adequate salaries for ministers that the forces engaged in moral 
teaching may be able to maintain the highest degree of efficiency. 

For the sacredness alike of seven days a week — six hallowed for honest 
and useful work and one universally recognized and made to serve man 
in his need for rest and worship. 

For placing human welfare above profit in industry. 

For the reduction of the hours of labor to the point where every worker 
may be afforded a proper degree of leisure for mental, moral and social 
culture and for recreational enjoyment. 

For the equitable division of the products of industry between capital 
and labor, and for the maximum productiveness and efficiency of both 
in order that industry may serve the nation most effectively. 

For complete justice to all and for strict uniformity in the enforcement 
of law, both as to person and property. 

For justice and good will to govern in all race relations. 

For the prevention of mob violence and lawlessness of every kind. 

For the suppression of prostitution and the abolition of the red light 
districts of our cities. 

For the prevention of disease and the conservation of health for the 
individual, for the community and for the nations. 

For temperance and the strict enforcement of the prohibition laws. 

For legislation that will require individuals and physicians to report 
all communicable diseases. 

For the proper care and treatment of defectives — the criminal, the 
blind, the deaf, the insane, the epileptic, and the feeble minded, and for 
the segregation and treatment of incurable disease. 

For thorough Americanization and such a strict loyalty to the nation 
that failure of any one to meet his obligations of citizenship, such as vot- 
ing, paying taxes, and obedience to law, would be regarded by the public 
as immoral and second only to sedition. 

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A Creed and a Crusade 

We believe: 

1. That all men are created — not equal, but — with equal rights to 
health, justice, fellowship and happiness. 

2. That Jesus is the supreme interpreter of the principles that should 
govern human society. 

3. That poverty should be abolished by vocational training of every 
child and by universal health inspection and training and by preventing 
the reproduction of the unfit. 

4. That crime should be prevented by removing the causes of fear 
and hate and by providing adequate moral training in childhood 

5. That disease is an unnecessary evil that should be prevented. 

6. That health is the basis of happiness and prosperity and should be 
the first duty of the home, of the school, of the church and of the govern- 
ment. 

7. That the death of children is the defeat of God's purpose and that 
their health — physical, mental and moral — should be a primary function 
and responsibility of the Church. 

8. That the promotion of the health of the pupils and of the commun- 
ity should be to the school of corresponding interest and obligation with 
instruction. 

9. That the essential and first work of the medical profession is the 
conservation, not the correction, of health; and that the physician should 
be paid for preventing disease rather than for treating it. 

10. That the home is the supreme institution of civilization and its 
welfare and sanctity must be safeguarded above every other possession 
of human society. 

11. That Motherhood is the most sacred function in human life and 
that mothers everywhere are entitled to the finest chivalry that can be 
paid them. 

12. That the supreme object of the Government, of industry, of edu- 
cation, of religion and of the individual should be the conservation of 
human life. 

13. That the time has come when the most destructive war in history 
should be followed by a world-wide crusade for the conservation of 
human life and happiness and 

we call 
on every American who believes in the ultimate achievement of brother- 
hood to enlist with us that health, justice and goodwill may be secured 
for the individual, for the nation and for the world. 

Membership 

The different forms of membership are: 

Life $250.00 

Extension 100.00 

Sustaining _ 50.00 

Institutional ~ 10.00 

Active . 5.00 

Please fill out the form below and mail it with your check to the Treas- 
urer, Mr. Wade Hampton Cooper, Munsey Building, Washington D. C. 

I hereby accept membership in the American Sociological Congress 
for which I am sending herewith $ 

Name 

Address - - 

Date : 

Occupation 

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Campaign Songs 

OF THE 

American Sociological Congress 

WRITTEN BY 

j. e. Mcculloch 

And Copyrighted by the 

American Sociological Congress 

Washington, D. C. 



I. FLAG OF OUR FATHERS 

{Tune, St. Catherine, L. M.) 

Flag of our fathers, waving still, 
Despite the world-wide war of might; 
Columbia lifts her banner high, 
Enthroned upon eternal right. 
Flag of our fathers, noble flag; 
We will be true to thee till death! 

Work of our fathers, standing firm, 
Who dared to smite the Tyrant's heel, 
Devoting all to liberty, 
A nation built for common weal. 
Work of our fathers, noble work; 
We will defend this work till death! 

Life of our fathers, pioneers; 

All pledged to serve each other's good; 

Each lived for all and all for each, 

While blazing ways for brotherhood. 

Life of our fathers, noble life; 

We will be true to thee till death! 

Land of our fathers, hallowed land, 
Red blooming still from heroes' blood, 
Disgraced by mobs and banners red, 
A land baptised for brotherhood. 
O land, our fathers' hallowed land, 
We will defend thy name till death! 

*God of our fathers, Lord of All, 
O save us from our bitter strife, 
And from blind greed for selfish gold, 
Lest we disgrace our fathers' life. 
God of our fathers, Lord of All, 
We will be true to Thee till death! 

*This stanza should be sung with audience bowing reverently. 

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II. COMRADES 
(Sung to the tune of "Scots Wha Hoe Wi' Wallace BUd") 

Comrades of the Son of God, 
Heirs of Martyrs' faith and blood, 
Who will work for brotherhood, 
Working with our Lord? 

He that loves reality, 
He that honors purity, 
He that lives true chivalry, 
*Lift your pledge to God! 



Hear the mothers' bitter cry; 
See the children fade and die; 
Millions in the grave now he, 
Whom God meant should live. 

Who will fight the fiend disease? 
Who will hate a life of ease? 
Who will seek his Lord to please? 
*Lift your pledge to God! 



Do not balance life with gain; 
Do not hoard on others' pain; 
Make not Mothers' praying vain; 
While the children die. 

Heaven hates our selfish gold; 
Human life has worth untold; 
Who will faith in man uphold? 
*Lift your pledge to God! 



Brothers still are stunned by fears; 
Mothers toiling, sick with tears; 
Orphans hope for better years; 
God's own justice comes! 

Who will fight for liberty? 
Who will claim equality? 
Who will live fraternity? 
*Lif t your pledge to God ! 



Come, ye brothers, hear the call, 
Jew and Gentile, races all, 
Every one both great and small, 
Work for Brotherhood! 

This shall be our Battle song, 
This, our banner, leads us on, 
As one loyal mighty throng, 
"World-wide Brotherhood ! " 

^Pledges in audience to be indicated by lifting the right hand while 
singing this line. 

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III. IT'S A HARD FIGHT TO SAVE THE CHILDREN 

(Sung to the tune of Tipperary) 

Through the nations of the world there stalks the fiend Disease, 
Leaving death and broken hearts, from seas to rolling seas. 
Will you bravely give your aid to stop this demon's blight? 
For all the little children dread his cruel deadly might. 

Chorus 

It's a hard fight to save the children; 

It's a hard fight, we know. 
It's a hard fight to save the children, 

But the fiend Disease must go, 
Come, men, for hearth and homeland, play up, do your share! 

It's a hard, hard fight to save the children; 
But the Old South's right there! 

Hail ye, doctor captains, on your far-flung fever line; 
And ye preacher pickets, brave with love of life divine ; 
Rouse, ye sons of Lee and Lincoln, heed the will of God, 
Who never meant a darling child to sleep beneath the sod. 

Should this smiling playground of the nation's children dear 
Frown with tiny orphaned graves that make the mothers fear? 
Hark, O men! a million children's bitter wail of woe; 
For this is God's clear chorus call: "The fiend Disease must go!" 



IV. THE NEW DIXIE 

(Sung to the tune of "Dixie") 

All hail to Thee, O Land of Sorrow, 
Golden days begin to-morrow; 

Look ahead! look ahead! look ahead! Dixie Land! 
In Dixie Land the sun is shining, 
All the clouds wear silver lining, 

Look ahead! look ahead! look ahead! Dixie Land! 

Chorus 

Who'll come to live in Dixie? Will you? Will you? 

In Dixie Land we hold our hand 
To welcome all to Dixie. 'Tis true, 'tis true 
That we will fight for Dixie. Will you? Will you? 

Enlist and fight for Dixie ? 

O come, defend the name of Dixie, 
Health and peace to win for Dixie. 

Look ahead! look ahead! look ahead! Dixie Land! 
O God of Nations, we adoring, 
*A11 salute our flag imploring, 

Lead ahead! lead ahead! lead ahead! Dixie Land. 

* Audience to salute the flag. 

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V. WONDERFUL WORD OF LIFE 

(Sung to the tune of "Sing Them Over Again to Me") 

Sing it over again to me, 

Wonderful word of life. 
God is working that He may£give, 

Wonderful perfect life. ^ ,, VI 
Justice, love and mercy, 
Truth and hope and duty, 
Beautiful words, wonderful words, 
Wonderful words of life. 

Children never were meant to die, 

Wonderful words of life. 
Here they sicken and toil and cry, 

Terrible words of life. 
Crying unto heaven, 
Children God hath given, 
Terrible word, horrible word, 
Terrible word of life. 

Who is working for motherhood? 

Wonderful work for God. 
Who is working for brotherhood? 

Wonderful work for God. 
Make our city healthful, 
Make our city joyful, 
Beautiful work, wonderful work, 
Wonderful work for God. 

All the world is a neighborhood, 

Wonderful world of life. 
All mankind is a brotherhood, 

Wonderful world of life. 
Fight disease and mammon, 
Make this planet heaven, 
Wonderful fight, glorious fight, 
Glorious fight for God. 



Note.— Copies of this folder will be furnished free on request of mem- 
bers, ministers and teachers for use in churches and schools. Address 
American Sociological Congress, Munsey Building, Washington, 
D. C 



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